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Leviticus 20

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20 ‎(1) And the LORD spoke to Moses: ‎(2) Say further to the Israelite people: Anyone among the Israelites, or among the strangers residing in Israel, who gives any offspring to Molech, shall be put to death; the people of the land shall pelt the person with stones. ‎(3) And I will set My face against that party, whom I will cut off from among the people for having given offspring to Molech and so defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name. ‎(4) And if the people of the land should shut their eyes to that party’s giving offspring to Molech, and should not put the person to death, ‎(5) I Myself will set My face against that party’s kin as well; and I will cut off from among their people both that person and all who follow in going astray after Molech. ‎(6) And if any person turns to ghosts and familiar spirits and goes astray after them, I will set My face against that person, whom I will cut off from among the people. ‎(7) You shall sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I the LORD am your God. ‎(8) You shall faithfully observe My laws: I the LORD make you holy. ‎(9) If anyone insults either father or mother, that person shall be put to death; that person has insulted father and mother—and retains the bloodguilt. ‎(10) If a man commits adultery with a married woman—committing adultery with another man’s wife—the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death. ‎(11) If a man lies with his father’s wife, it is the nakedness of his father that he has uncovered; the two shall be put to death—and they retain the bloodguilt. ‎(12) If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest—and they retain the bloodguilt. ‎(13) If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have done an abhorrent thing; they shall be put to death—and they retain the bloodguilt. ‎(14) If a man takes a woman and her mother [into his household as his wives], it is depravity; both he and they shall be put to the fire, that there be no depravity among you. ‎(15) If a man has carnal relations with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast. ‎(16) If a woman approaches any beast to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death—and they retain the bloodguilt. ‎(17) If a man takes his sister [into his household as a wife], the daughter of either his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; they shall be excommunicated in the sight of their kinsfolk. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister, he shall bear the guilt. ‎(18) If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual condition and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow and she has exposed her blood flow; both of them shall be cut off from among their people. ‎(19) You [males] shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is laying bare one’s own flesh; they shall bear their guilt. ‎(20) If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, it is his uncle’s nakedness that he has uncovered. They shall bear their guilt: they shall die childless. ‎(21) If a man takes the wife of his brother [into his household as a wife], it is indecency. It is the nakedness of his brother that he has uncovered; they shall remain childless. ‎(22) You shall faithfully observe all My laws and all My regulations, lest the land to which I bring you to settle in spew you out. ‎(23) You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. For it is because they did all these things that I abhorred them ‎(24) and said to you: You shall possess their land, for I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I the LORD am your God who has set you apart from other peoples. ‎(25) So you shall set apart the pure beast from the impure, the impure bird from the pure. You shall not draw abomination upon yourselves through beast or bird or anything with which the ground is alive, which I have set apart for you to treat as impure. ‎(26) You shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy, and I have set you apart from other peoples to be Mine. ‎(27) A man or a woman who has a ghost or a familiar spirit shall be put to death; they shall be pelted with stones—and they shall retain the bloodguilt.